Has anyone ever realised a thread is about them?

[Diel]

Wondering if anyone has ever recognised a thread is about them and responded?

I'm purely asking out of curiosity, no experience of it

I try to be careful when posting with the various special needs conditions in the family and several things about DS I would never mention because that would be asking to be outed.

Also didn't post about my neighbour difficulties because it was a big enough crap storm, it didn't need a Mumsnet thread added to it! Do give general advice to others though, just nothing specific to me.

I recognised two of my nct group from posts on here....not very exciting ones but in the infant feeding section!

I did feel like saying 'oh I know that already' when they told mr irl but I just kept quiet!

I'm quite identifiable but I don't post much...more of a reader!

papersmile - unfortunately it was very clearly me as she described the plans we'd had for our afternoon together, and I'd used a particular word to describe the day both our babies were having (they were super-grumpy - it wasn't a rude word, just to be clear!), but she took that as an accusation levelled against her baby, and then made up this entire conversation in which I said all kinds of really nasty things.
Once I'd had a little moment of goldfish-like shocked face (breastfeeding hormones and 20 people saying you deserved to be punched make for an interesting combination), I then searched under that username and saw further posts that confirmed it was her.
I stopped going on the board after that and left her to it! I've never mentioned it to her, and we're still friends to this day, but I'm always seriously careful with my words around her now

Name,change10001 you almost gave me a heart attack. Bloody hell, don't do that to me No, I don't have chickens but otherwise you were very close!

I spotted a friend's wife - her username is a variant on her real name and she was posting about a very specific situation that she and my friend were in. I didn't tell her but also didn't read the thread! She doesn't seem to post any more, or if she does she's namechanged!

Someone resurrected the "wedding ring" thread because of this thread I think!

My bf spots me on here all the time- but I'm totally traceable anyway. If I post something really personal, I NC.

I suspect it might be me that upset her house guest by not having a bin in the bathroom.

Not a thread, but a comment.
I came across a two year old thread in which my daughter's name was mentioned. It's an extremely unusual name, but not unknown. A reporter and a politician both have this name.

Anyway, it was described as 'ludicrous every time she heard it.'

Yep, I know her writing style. I've been to the pub with her and thought she was the least two faced person I could hope to meet. Lesson learnt.

My mum recognised me, after the referendum there was a thread in Chat about five lovely things, I posted my list and my mum PM'd me on Facebook telling me she'd found me as only I could have made that list. So now she knows when I open threads, which I don't mind as she introduced me to Mumsnet in the first place. (Though it was the anti dinosaur thread that got me hooked.)

Hold it I don't know you but even with the info you have posted on this thread I'm pretty sure I'd know if I did!

Fwiw, I have been recognised by my sister on here as I don't really bother to change details and only write on work-related or tell-me-a-story-made-for-classics type threads.

I've had kind of the opposite, I posted an AIBU and all the details were right except the county I live in, to try and avoid getting outed. One poster posted that she knew who I was, lived in the next town to me and worked with my cousin (in this wrong county) then started wading in with extra details! Luckily I'd already discussed the problem on the thread so quietly just let it die but it tickled me, wondered if there was just someone who happened to have the same issue I did (quite specific) that this poster knew or whether she was trying to pretend she had inside info.